Conferences, Seminars and Events
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Harshan Kumarasingham on ‘The quest for “Eastminster”: the British parliamentary system and the foundation of independent south Asia’
Dr Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons reports back from our latest ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar… The ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar recently moved beyond the British Isles and indeed beyond Europe with a paper from Dr. Harshan Kumarasingham,…
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Festschrift in Honour of Professor David Hayton, editor of The History of Parliament, 1690-1715
Last month, the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust (publishers of the journal Parliamentary History) released a festschrift in honour of Professor David Hayton, ‘Parliaments, Politics and Policy in Britain and Ireland, c.1680-1832‘. Professor Hayton is a renowned historian of early modern…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Naomi Lloyd-Jones on ‘Deconstructing Westminster: towards a four nations history of the Irish Home Rule crisis, c.1886-93’
Naomi Lloyd-Jones of King’s College, London writes a guest post about her recent paper given to the ‘Parliaments, politics and people’ seminar. I spoke at the opening seminar of the summer term on ‘Deconstructing Westminster: towards a four nations history…
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Simon de Montfort and the Battle of Lewes
On the anniversary of the battle of Lewes, news of a new play that explores the causes of the battle and we launch our 2015 conference website… 750 years ago today, the enigmatic Simon de Montfort won his greatest victory…
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John Wilkes: A friend to liberty?
Last week Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow on the Lords 1660-1832 project gave a lecture in Parliament on ‘John Wilkes: A friend to liberty?’. Dr Eagles’s lecture is part of a programme to mark the 250th anniversary of Wilkes’…
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: Dr Hannes Kleineke and the Yorkist Parliaments
Dr Paul Hunneyball reports back from our last ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar… On 11 February the Parliaments, Politics and People seminar welcomed Dr. Hannes Kleineke of the History of Parliament Trust, a Senior Research Fellow in the House of…
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Parliaments, Politics and People Seminar: The 16th Century ‘Parliamentary Mind’
Dr Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons reports back from our first ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar of 2014… This term’s programme for the ‘Parliaments, Politics and People’ seminar opened with a paper from Catherine Chou, of Stanford University, on…